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jenna: doctors may have been diagnosing the wrong type of deficit? that is a question asked in an editorial in the "new york times" published by a top psychiatric specialist who says adults who experience adhd symptoms like for getfulness or paying attention may supper from chronic sleep deprivation and that may be the case in children. we have the author of that op-ed. clinical professor of psychiatry at nyu school of medicine. doc, how did you come to this? tell us about the parents. >> what i wrote about and personnal experience in my practice basically after treating adhd adults for six years now. but, to rewind a little bit and give you a little personal history i myself had symptoms of sleepiness, fatigue, attention problems and was diagnosed ultimately with a sleep disorder. jenna: took many years to do that? wasn't something, i'm not getting a good night's sleep but having -- >> there was a big long process wondering if it is worth clinical attention. many doctors didn't know how to deal with it. and that's what i find when i see patients who
jenna: doctors may have been diagnosing the wrong type of deficit? that is a question asked in an editorial in the "new york times" published by a top psychiatric specialist who says adults who experience adhd symptoms like for getfulness or paying attention may supper from chronic sleep deprivation and that may be the case in children. we have the author of that op-ed. clinical professor of psychiatry at nyu school of medicine. doc, how did you come to this? tell us about the...
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. >> sequestration is bad policy, the wrong way to reduce the deficit. that's why house republicans have voted twice to replace these automatic cuts with smarter once. >> even though congress passed a fix late last week to allow the transportation secretary to move money around to avoid furloughs and reduce flight delays, the president did not sound happy. >> the fact that congress responded to the short-term problem of flight delays by giving us the option of sifting money that's designed to repair and improve airports over the long-term to fix the short-term problem. that's not a solution. >> democrats run happy because flight delays were addressed while meals on wheels, head start and other domestic programs are dealing with less. republicans say it was the white house that decided to use flight days a as political weapon. >> it wreaks of politics. that's exactly what it is. they have got the resources. they have got the manpower and they have a declining demand. everything that the f.a.a. needs to do, they could have done already. >> today oklahoma r
. >> sequestration is bad policy, the wrong way to reduce the deficit. that's why house republicans have voted twice to replace these automatic cuts with smarter once. >> even though congress passed a fix late last week to allow the transportation secretary to move money around to avoid furloughs and reduce flight delays, the president did not sound happy. >> the fact that congress responded to the short-term problem of flight delays by giving us the option of sifting money...
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not how we're going to balance the deficit in this country. >> brian: it will be interesting to see if you give somebody the option, like we all do, if you want to get a luxury car, you pay more. if you want to get a compact convenient car u pay less. it will be interesting if they allow you to say i'm going to nexium. >> but that was the concern about obamacare in some ways that we're going to create two or three levels of health care system and a lot of americans are going to wind up on the bottom. so the richest people have the capacity to pay more will get better medical care. that's the real iniquity. the other problem is there is no standards for these so-called academic detailers. we don't know what they're felling the doctors or seeing. private pharmaceutical industry is regulated, state, federal and their own voluntary standards. there are no standards for these federal consultants who are spreading out across the country, preaching whatever they're preaching 'cause we don't know. >> brian: peter johnson, jr. talk being another element of obamacare we are not familiar with. co
not how we're going to balance the deficit in this country. >> brian: it will be interesting to see if you give somebody the option, like we all do, if you want to get a luxury car, you pay more. if you want to get a compact convenient car u pay less. it will be interesting if they allow you to say i'm going to nexium. >> but that was the concern about obamacare in some ways that we're going to create two or three levels of health care system and a lot of americans are going to wind...
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and so the next two years, we have are facing a deficit and kate will tell us why that deficit is there, but we begin by saying that we have got $123 million budget deficit for next fiscal year, but the second year is a little larger, about $256 million budget deficit and put it in context. as past parents of this great city, we used to have hundreds and hundreds of more deficits that have to deal with when the economy was bad. now it's recovering. and i have to thank the public, the business groups, the non-profits and everybody that has been sacrificing to help us balance this budget. because it's their sacrifices that got us through these very hard years. so it sounds like 123 and 256 are not great numbers. they are still serious deficits, but i think we have a spirit, where the parents, the legislative body and the executive branch are working closely together to make that gap closer. we have that, and i want to say, the principles that are guiding me in setting this budget, i want a sound economic budget. i want the residents and visitors in this city to feel that they have a safe
and so the next two years, we have are facing a deficit and kate will tell us why that deficit is there, but we begin by saying that we have got $123 million budget deficit for next fiscal year, but the second year is a little larger, about $256 million budget deficit and put it in context. as past parents of this great city, we used to have hundreds and hundreds of more deficits that have to deal with when the economy was bad. now it's recovering. and i have to thank the public, the business...
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doesn't mean we don't have a deficit. we still have a deficit in the budget. this year coming $123 million, and the second year in the budget covering 2014/15 has $256 million deficit. we are not out of woods. but these numbers are better than $500 million and $700 million budget deficits that we used to have a few years ago. our city is doing better. we are concerned about how to fulfill that deficit. but we are also concerned about what is happening to seniors, what is happening to youth. what is happening to families. our open space. our small businesses. our environment. we are all concerned about that as well. of course i must say about our housing authority as well. so we are taking on a lot of responsibility and because we are and because we are very busy doing the work we are. sometimes we need your input to steer us in the right direction for what things you think are important. so we are open to that. and we want to hear from you tonight. enough speeches. let's get on with it. may i have a couple words from supervisor avalos and farrell. >> thank you
doesn't mean we don't have a deficit. we still have a deficit in the budget. this year coming $123 million, and the second year in the budget covering 2014/15 has $256 million deficit. we are not out of woods. but these numbers are better than $500 million and $700 million budget deficits that we used to have a few years ago. our city is doing better. we are concerned about how to fulfill that deficit. but we are also concerned about what is happening to seniors, what is happening to youth....
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were the deficit reduction it was a priority of deficit reduction are on the highway already sizing drive deficit reduction is that's the side effect of what we want to do we want to get the boot of the government boot off the neck of the private economy we're dealing with one point seven five trillion dollars worth of compliance costs with rules in the federal register eighty one thousand pages of rules in the federal register that you and i have to comply with and we've probably most likely violated one of those three day i'm going. to six thousand iris inflation that decreases the buying power the middle class for the essential goods that affects them much more than it does the and we behave more on fighting the federal debt and most of these federal agencies that you love get per year you know we got to do some about this debt tom yeah it would be a fine idea to do something about the let's raise taxes on the people you test that in the sat words in the war of their eyes alone liberal rubble after the break. down the. publication so choose your language stream quality and enjoy
were the deficit reduction it was a priority of deficit reduction are on the highway already sizing drive deficit reduction is that's the side effect of what we want to do we want to get the boot of the government boot off the neck of the private economy we're dealing with one point seven five trillion dollars worth of compliance costs with rules in the federal register eighty one thousand pages of rules in the federal register that you and i have to comply with and we've probably most likely...
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why should we expect the huge deficit to help us? >> chris van hollen? >> it does matter. there are some investments that provide a greater return in terms of our future. i would argue infrastructure ve, investment in education is important, science and research at the early stage is very important. we also know that in this period where you have all this slack, you have trillions of dollars on the sidelines primarily because the lack of demand moving forward and making these disasters now and help the economy in the short term and the long term. i should say that i do believe we should also act now to put in place balanced approach for long-term deficit reduction. i am not saying wait to do that but it should be phased in over a longer period of time. most of the real demographic push comes eight, nine, ten years out. it pays to face those changes in on the health care side that we talked about, but it is very shortsighted to cut deeply in individual investors. a drag on the economy and hurts the long-term economic growth. >> there is plenty of savings, we are short on ti
why should we expect the huge deficit to help us? >> chris van hollen? >> it does matter. there are some investments that provide a greater return in terms of our future. i would argue infrastructure ve, investment in education is important, science and research at the early stage is very important. we also know that in this period where you have all this slack, you have trillions of dollars on the sidelines primarily because the lack of demand moving forward and making these...
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>> mandy, a real rethink going on of aitude toward the sequester and deficit reduction, as that deficit reduction begins to hurt the economy. our survey, 46 responsibilitiants this time around in the month of aim. we asked them about the deficit and how urgent they saw it to be. 80% in january, 67 in march said we need a plan now. only 25% says the u.s. -- a couple years, 4% said no need. look at the april results. a big change here. 52%, gone down from 80 to 52. those who say the u.s. has time to enact it, up to 39%. even some talk in here, not a lot, just 9%, but higher than it was. it starts to rival this 52%. big change in the attitude towards the deficit. how about attitudes toward the sequester and congress? you could see here pretty much the way it was. should they continue it as it is? this is the april results. 35%, continuing but change the makeup. still the same as it was back march compared to april. now take a look at what they're saying. a little bit more support, and less support. i think that's the key right here, less support from 20% to 9%, say we need more cuts now. a
>> mandy, a real rethink going on of aitude toward the sequester and deficit reduction, as that deficit reduction begins to hurt the economy. our survey, 46 responsibilitiants this time around in the month of aim. we asked them about the deficit and how urgent they saw it to be. 80% in january, 67 in march said we need a plan now. only 25% says the u.s. -- a couple years, 4% said no need. look at the april results. a big change here. 52%, gone down from 80 to 52. those who say the u.s....
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spending -- even though deficit spending is really taxation deferred rather than taxation denied. it does make the current generation of voters feel like they're getting something for nothing. even at the tail end of the reagan administration, we had it at one point where the government was -- [inaudible] david fromm back when he was much more libertarian than he is today -- [laughter] described it as post-great government society at pre-great government prices. the final thing is divided government which has been very successful in curtailing the growth of government with. it certainly was in the '90s when you had divided goth between clinton and congressional republicans. and aide arguing we're -- i'd arguing we're starting to see some degree of success with that now with the republican house and the democrats controlling the senate and the wows. but to actually address the long-term drivers of the debt to keep the federal government from continuing to grow, there are going to need to be some systematic reforms to entitlements, and under the current political conditions, it's ve
spending -- even though deficit spending is really taxation deferred rather than taxation denied. it does make the current generation of voters feel like they're getting something for nothing. even at the tail end of the reagan administration, we had it at one point where the government was -- [inaudible] david fromm back when he was much more libertarian than he is today -- [laughter] described it as post-great government society at pre-great government prices. the final thing is divided...
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we do have a structural budget deficit in the city. we need to deal with the short- term balancing of the budget in a way that does not decimate basic city services that people rely on but also to address our long term structural budget deficit. that means implementing budget reforms that will smooth out the budget process so that it is not a boom-bust process. that means reforming our pension and retiree system so that they are stable and do not drain the general fund. that is a big aspect of it. another huge issue is the deferred maintenance on our infrastructure. we have a lot of infrastructure that has been deteriorating because we have not maintained properly. that includes roads, sewer systems, muni. we need to be much more diligent about maintaining our infrastructure. some of the big citywide issues that impact the district include transportation. we had more muni service and some other districts. it is not always reliable. some of the major bus lines in the district are not reliable. we have major projects like the renovation
we do have a structural budget deficit in the city. we need to deal with the short- term balancing of the budget in a way that does not decimate basic city services that people rely on but also to address our long term structural budget deficit. that means implementing budget reforms that will smooth out the budget process so that it is not a boom-bust process. that means reforming our pension and retiree system so that they are stable and do not drain the general fund. that is a big aspect of...
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and so the time to get the deficit under control is when the economy is bombing. it's not when the economy is in a ditch and that's why these policies don't work. >> woodruff: what about that? that is part of what the federal reserve said today? >> the problem is that a canesian policy is perfect you look at the historic recession that lasted 11 months and grew 6.5% the year after. if we could take the government spending from the 6.5% year and move it to the year with a recession it's a good idea but the problem is we're in a period of slow growth and trying to build a government spending bridge to when we're growing stronger. the other evidence from a different study is that it usually takes a decade to recover from a financial crisis. spending our way out of that is a really, really hard thing to do. and governments haven't been able to sustain it and that's why across the industrialized world serve cut cutting -- every is cutting back on spending. >> woodruff: robert kuttner you are shaking your head. >> it takes a decade to get out a crisis or a year or two d
and so the time to get the deficit under control is when the economy is bombing. it's not when the economy is in a ditch and that's why these policies don't work. >> woodruff: what about that? that is part of what the federal reserve said today? >> the problem is that a canesian policy is perfect you look at the historic recession that lasted 11 months and grew 6.5% the year after. if we could take the government spending from the 6.5% year and move it to the year with a recession...
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. >> we are in our fifth year of major budget deficits. it is inevitable that we will make painful cuts. so how do we do it in a way that will minimize the impact on every day san franciscans? >> i really appreciate what you're doing here. you are a really patient gentleman, and i appreciate that. >> our parks are often cut first. how do we maintain our safety net, public health services, security services? all of these are critical decisions that have to be made. >> i have seen many people come forward today who i know whose lives have changed because of the services we are providing. that is something that we can be proud of and have a as a goal at the budget process to make sure that we can turn lives around and create a liveable communities. >> if we do not resolve the pension issue, we will have to cut. we will see fewer options for muni. we will see the parks deteriorate. i think the tide is rising. we have to figure out how to swim very quickly. >> to address these concerns, i have made a series of amendments to the resolution that
. >> we are in our fifth year of major budget deficits. it is inevitable that we will make painful cuts. so how do we do it in a way that will minimize the impact on every day san franciscans? >> i really appreciate what you're doing here. you are a really patient gentleman, and i appreciate that. >> our parks are often cut first. how do we maintain our safety net, public health services, security services? all of these are critical decisions that have to be made. >> i...
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we had a lot of talks about the deficit. we had the chairman of the ftc talk about the big case involving net neutrality. chairman give a on dodd-frank, and then the chairman of the cftc called for a paradigm shift. we have heard from two republican governors of stake facing different challenges and heard about what they are up to, and as well we have heard a lot about the economy. the president's chief economist earlier today taking a not so omble shot at former director david stockton. at the end of the day we have had not only some agreement on corporate tax reform, we have had an 80 murphy movie reference. you don't get those very often. a special thank you to our for allowing us to have this event here. i want to thank our colleagues at bloomberg for the editorial help with everything that played out today. this reminder for those who showed up this afternoon, bloomberg linc holds over 30 summits like these up around the world. the bloomberg hedge fund summit june for the new york, and the one we should all be looking f
we had a lot of talks about the deficit. we had the chairman of the ftc talk about the big case involving net neutrality. chairman give a on dodd-frank, and then the chairman of the cftc called for a paradigm shift. we have heard from two republican governors of stake facing different challenges and heard about what they are up to, and as well we have heard a lot about the economy. the president's chief economist earlier today taking a not so omble shot at former director david stockton. at the...
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deficit spending given the president's announcement today about the possibility of chemical weapons in syria i first asked if spending either military or domestic must be severely severely curtailed. this is the guns and butter argument right now i think we can have both and as long as we can borrow money it practically zero percent interest we can pretend that we can have both but eventually interest rates are going to rise and the government going to be forced to make some difficult choices there is going to have to be a lot of cutting going on and i think we're going to have to cut in both military and domestic because we're not to be able florida a lot of these expenditures or do you think it's possible to reduce the debt and the deficit while the fed enables lower interest rates piece of a quantitative easing well no i don't think anything. it's going to be accomplished constructively as long as the fed is spiking the punch bowl i think a prerequisite to a legitimate recovery is going to be sound money and higher interest rates right we're going to have to sober up we're going to
deficit spending given the president's announcement today about the possibility of chemical weapons in syria i first asked if spending either military or domestic must be severely severely curtailed. this is the guns and butter argument right now i think we can have both and as long as we can borrow money it practically zero percent interest we can pretend that we can have both but eventually interest rates are going to rise and the government going to be forced to make some difficult choices...
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this next panel looks at the budget deficit and debt. t is 40 minutes. >> first of all, it is nice to be here. it is tougher to talk about the deficit and debt these days than it was years ago when i was overing ronald reagan. he was crawsing with a stripper named fanny fox. those were scandals. today, the scandal is did they cheat on their excel sheets? i really prefer fanny fox. it is a lot more fun. let's start with the controversy today. it is the premise of the great peril that we all, that many people accepted four or five years ago. was it exaggerated? let me start with you, mr. comptroller. >> i think the debt and deficit issues are serious, particularly over the long term. as we have done our simulations, e showed the recent actions by the congress and the administration have brought the deficit down. but in 2016 it begins to increase. we have a huge wave of democrat changes occurring where almost in today's society, we have about 8000 people turning 65. between now and 2029, there will be 10,000 people. those demographics are g
this next panel looks at the budget deficit and debt. t is 40 minutes. >> first of all, it is nice to be here. it is tougher to talk about the deficit and debt these days than it was years ago when i was overing ronald reagan. he was crawsing with a stripper named fanny fox. those were scandals. today, the scandal is did they cheat on their excel sheets? i really prefer fanny fox. it is a lot more fun. let's start with the controversy today. it is the premise of the great peril that we...
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deficit spending given the president's announcement today about the possibility of chemical weapons in syria i first asked if spending either military or domestic. must be severely severely curtailed. this is the guns and butter argument right now we think we can have both and as long as we can borrow money at practically zero percent interest we can pretend that we can have both but eventually interest rates are going to rise and the government's going to be forced to make some difficult choices there's going to have to be a lot of cutting going on and i think we're going to have to cut in both military and domestic because we're not going to florida a lot of these expenditures what do you think it's possible to reduce the debt and the deficit while the fat enables lower interest rates to be quantitative easing well no i don't think anything is going to be accomplished constructively as long as the fed is spiking the punch bowl i think a prerequisite to a legitimate recovery is going to be sound money and higher interest rates right we're going to have to sober up we're going to have
deficit spending given the president's announcement today about the possibility of chemical weapons in syria i first asked if spending either military or domestic. must be severely severely curtailed. this is the guns and butter argument right now we think we can have both and as long as we can borrow money at practically zero percent interest we can pretend that we can have both but eventually interest rates are going to rise and the government's going to be forced to make some difficult...
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you can solve a deficit. you have three choices. anyone, any company, any business, anyone has the same three choices socially if you have a financial problem like the one we have where your revenue and your expenses are totally mismatched. you can raise your revenue. you can raise taxes. you can cut your spending. both republicans and democrats are right, but the third thing to do is growth. you can grow your economy. if you grow your economy, you know, people go off of unemployment, tax revenues increase, a lot of go ahead things happen, and growth in the economy only comes from innovation. that's why innovation is so important. that's why innovation is a strategy to foster and celebrate and recognize as a nation we're the best in the world at it. that book did well, thrilled to see policymakers showed me they read it, talked with me about it, and i'm excited about that, but then, honestly, i got -- as i went around the world talking about it because countries say what do we do? cities and states want to be silicon valley, and the
you can solve a deficit. you have three choices. anyone, any company, any business, anyone has the same three choices socially if you have a financial problem like the one we have where your revenue and your expenses are totally mismatched. you can raise your revenue. you can raise taxes. you can cut your spending. both republicans and democrats are right, but the third thing to do is growth. you can grow your economy. if you grow your economy, you know, people go off of unemployment, tax...
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anything like a significant budget surplus we went into the recession carrying a farrell substantial deficit and obviously that really ballooned and got much much worse and what we are facing now are really the biggest bulletin deficits that the united states economy has faced since the second world war we are moving in the right direction it's getling smogger and it's still a farrell daunting challenge and this is what was westbound bend the whole fiscal cliff last year and we ended up with an 11th hour deal to avoid the worst of the fiscal live kcliff and i'm not going to read all of the stuff on this slide but basically what we got was tax increases that effect the working poor primarily and the very affluent and not really not much of an impact on the middle class and you can may be have your own political opinions about that but the spending cuts didn't really take much effect at all. the spending cuts are now poised to go into effect march 1st and to make thing more interesting we run back into the ceiling debt much later and that rolls up
anything like a significant budget surplus we went into the recession carrying a farrell substantial deficit and obviously that really ballooned and got much much worse and what we are facing now are really the biggest bulletin deficits that the united states economy has faced since the second world war we are moving in the right direction it's getling smogger and it's still a farrell daunting challenge and this is what was westbound bend the whole fiscal cliff last year and we ended up with an...
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why should we expect the huge deficit to help us? >> congressman ben holland feared it might take back? >> there are some investment that provide a greater roi in terms of our future. i would argue infrastructure is important, that's the and science and research at the early stages or import. we also know in the spirit of the economy is where you have flak, chileans of dollars primarily because the lack of demand that moving forward in making investments now can help the economy in the short term in the long term. i do believe we should also act now to put in place this balanced approach to long-term deficit reduction. i'm not saying wait to do that, but that should be phased in over a longer period of time. as john said, most of the real demographic push comes eight, nine, 10 years out. so yes the mechanisms we talked about, but it's very shortsighted to cut deeply into investments. it hurts our long-term economic growth. >> there's punny of saving as jean noted. bay is a good example look at what happens when you cut court governme
why should we expect the huge deficit to help us? >> congressman ben holland feared it might take back? >> there are some investment that provide a greater roi in terms of our future. i would argue infrastructure is important, that's the and science and research at the early stages or import. we also know in the spirit of the economy is where you have flak, chileans of dollars primarily because the lack of demand that moving forward in making investments now can help the economy in...
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we have reduced the deficit already by $2.5 trillion. the proposal is to gain another $1.5 trillion. the difference is we do it fair. that will get us to the magic number. every economist to talk to will tell you if you get that to gdp below three percent, that is when things take off. that is exactly what the president's raposo will do. it will get it down to 2.1%. thedo not have to break back of the middle class to have this country grow. the only way you can make it grow is to give it a chance. like you, i believe in the future of this country. some people say i'm an optimist. the white house optimist, like i'm the new play -- nook in the place. -- but i'm the new kid in the place. i know the journey of this country. never have the american people, never ever have the american people let us down. they are not asking for anything special. the american people are are only asking for what they paid for. just give them a fighting chance. you know, you can't be outcompeted. you can't out innovate us. you can't out produce us. no country in
we have reduced the deficit already by $2.5 trillion. the proposal is to gain another $1.5 trillion. the difference is we do it fair. that will get us to the magic number. every economist to talk to will tell you if you get that to gdp below three percent, that is when things take off. that is exactly what the president's raposo will do. it will get it down to 2.1%. thedo not have to break back of the middle class to have this country grow. the only way you can make it grow is to give it a...
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deficit spending given the president's announcement today about the possibility of chemical weapons in syria i first asked if spending either military or domestic must be severely severely curtailed. this is the guns and butter argument right now we think we can have both and as long as we can borrow money at practically zero percent interest we can pretend that we can have both but eventually interest rates are going to rise and the governor's going to be forced to make some difficult choices there's going to have to be a lot of cutting going on and i think we're going to have to cut in both military and domestic because we're not real of florida a lot of these expenditures what do you think it's possible to reduce the debt and the deficit while the fat enables lower interest rates piece of a quantitative easing. well no i don't think anything is going to be accomplished constructively as long as the fed is spiking the punch bowl i think a prerequisite to a legitimate recovery is going to be sound money and higher interest rates right we're going to have to sober up we're going to hav
deficit spending given the president's announcement today about the possibility of chemical weapons in syria i first asked if spending either military or domestic must be severely severely curtailed. this is the guns and butter argument right now we think we can have both and as long as we can borrow money at practically zero percent interest we can pretend that we can have both but eventually interest rates are going to rise and the governor's going to be forced to make some difficult choices...
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overall, our budget, we are in our fifth year of major budget deficits. i have been chair of the budget committee for the past couple of years. i am still involved in budget issues. i want to make sure i can be helpful to my colleagues who are grappling with our huge deficit. it is inevitable that we are going to make painful cuts, so how do we do it in a way that will minimize the impact to every day san franciscans, how can we keep our parks in good conditions? how do we maintain our safety net for public health services, public security services, public safety? all these are critical decision that need to be made. the pension question is something that comes up. the cost of our pension liability will cost the city, especially because of our investments in the market have come down since 2008. we are spending more of our general fund to pay our pension costs. that is a big challenge. it is a long-term problem, but it also has short-term implications. we know right away we are not going to have the enough money as we need to cover our services and pensio
overall, our budget, we are in our fifth year of major budget deficits. i have been chair of the budget committee for the past couple of years. i am still involved in budget issues. i want to make sure i can be helpful to my colleagues who are grappling with our huge deficit. it is inevitable that we are going to make painful cuts, so how do we do it in a way that will minimize the impact to every day san franciscans, how can we keep our parks in good conditions? how do we maintain our safety...
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big spending drove up the deficit those years and pretty much ignited tea part movement. wedge politics, especially in the 2004 election activated the evangelical right and adventurism abroad wars we have been talking about led to the divisions with those like john mccain, who supports the wars and libertarians like rand paul, who certainly does not. these are fascinating. let's talk about the tax thing. a lot of people forgotten but tea partiers haven't. their own republican president was not vetoing spending bill. >> big-spending republican, new phrase. nobody had ever heard of one of those. but because of the explosion of government after 9/11, number of tax bills, tax cut bills passed, the deficit exploded under bush. and that made the economic wing of the republican party, which had liked its policies up to a point and this other group of folks who worry about debt and deficits, that made them unhappy. >> don't forget prescription drug benefits for seniors. chris: unfunded. republican party used to be a party i was growing up party to easily vote for. wasn't a big de
big spending drove up the deficit those years and pretty much ignited tea part movement. wedge politics, especially in the 2004 election activated the evangelical right and adventurism abroad wars we have been talking about led to the divisions with those like john mccain, who supports the wars and libertarians like rand paul, who certainly does not. these are fascinating. let's talk about the tax thing. a lot of people forgotten but tea partiers haven't. their own republican president was not...
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and the concern with deficits similarly was not in evidence in the bush years. i think a lot of what we've been seeing quite sadly is simply counter positioning vis a vis president obama. republicans quickly go to the opposite side of the issue. only if years before they were on the same side that the obama administration now occupies. >> do you think that the way the current sequester and budget cutting debates are going to work out is that we will keep all of the cuts that hurt people that don't have political capital and the ones that bother members of congress themselves or people with political capital those ones will get fixed? >> that is what we've done so far. i think this is a really appalling period in washington, d.c. in the next month or two, everybody who is on unemployment benefits who has been out of work for more than 24 weeks, their benefits are not coming from the state, they're coming fedey.th're going to get their benefits cut. these folks, the long-term unemployed, they'll see their benefits cut by 10%, 11%, or sometimes in some cases 12%. t
and the concern with deficits similarly was not in evidence in the bush years. i think a lot of what we've been seeing quite sadly is simply counter positioning vis a vis president obama. republicans quickly go to the opposite side of the issue. only if years before they were on the same side that the obama administration now occupies. >> do you think that the way the current sequester and budget cutting debates are going to work out is that we will keep all of the cuts that hurt people...
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deficit down and create jobs? what's a quick and perhaps easy way to drive the u.s. deficit down and create jobs? i will give you a hint. we need to turn illegal in to legal. i'll explain. but first here's my take. those urging america to intervene in syria are sure of one thing. if we had gotten in sooner, things would be better in that war-torn country. had the obama administration gotten involved earlier, there would be less instability and fewer killings. we would not be seen in john mccain's words this week -- >> atrocities on a scale we have not seen in a long, long time. >> in fact, we have seen atrocities much worse than those in syria recently. in iraq, only a few years ago, from 2003 to 2012, despite there being as many as 180,000 american and allied troops in iraq, somewhere between 150,000 and 300,000 iraqi civilians died and about 1.5 million fled the country. jihadi groups flourished throughout iraq and al qaeda had a huge presence there. the u.s. was about as actively engaged in iraq as possible. and yet more terrible things happened there than in syri
deficit down and create jobs? what's a quick and perhaps easy way to drive the u.s. deficit down and create jobs? i will give you a hint. we need to turn illegal in to legal. i'll explain. but first here's my take. those urging america to intervene in syria are sure of one thing. if we had gotten in sooner, things would be better in that war-torn country. had the obama administration gotten involved earlier, there would be less instability and fewer killings. we would not be seen in john...
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in other words, you've got to have a deficit reduction plan. but if necessary, you've got to calibrate that so that it's not happening so sharply that your both levels fall, your deficit becomes worse, and you get a downward spiral. so, look, i think it's possible for the government to adjust. i think in a way it is adjusting. but i think it's important to balance the monetary effect that the bank of england policies are taking with a fiscal -- a fiscal plan that allows our economy to carry on. >> we are, of course, in a global-connected economy. and the emerging markets, certainly throughout asia, seem to be showing real growth rates. can we see the interconnectedness on the positive side of things rather than the interconnectedness on the negative side of things, which is what we saw in 2007 and 2008? do you think that is going to be helpful for the u.s. and the eurozone? >> yes, i think it could be. i'm optimistic about the new chinese leadership. i think they're really smart, capable people who understand the next stages of reform in china
in other words, you've got to have a deficit reduction plan. but if necessary, you've got to calibrate that so that it's not happening so sharply that your both levels fall, your deficit becomes worse, and you get a downward spiral. so, look, i think it's possible for the government to adjust. i think in a way it is adjusting. but i think it's important to balance the monetary effect that the bank of england policies are taking with a fiscal -- a fiscal plan that allows our economy to carry on....
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that is rather a new as a% of gdp and what you take way here is what are we dealing with this budget deficit problem for some time if there is a good side to that, if you can continue to grow an economy, even with a budget deficit, what you are looking at here is gdp but not the way that you are used to looking at it more often than that phot what we talk about d g t we focused on the economy quarter growth range and whether it grew during the quarter this teems you in terms of a absolutely level base basis and reason i'm showing it this way is because for all four quarters of last year the overall economy was better than the it was before the prerecession high water mark and we have turn the quarter into a new expansion and if it didn't feel that way it that is to do with this the none farm payroll and each bar here represents a single month's change in the total number of people who have a job and you add up all of knows jobs that was loss during the recession it's 8.8 million people and we have only created five and-a-half million total job and that leaves us with a deficit of three or so
that is rather a new as a% of gdp and what you take way here is what are we dealing with this budget deficit problem for some time if there is a good side to that, if you can continue to grow an economy, even with a budget deficit, what you are looking at here is gdp but not the way that you are used to looking at it more often than that phot what we talk about d g t we focused on the economy quarter growth range and whether it grew during the quarter this teems you in terms of a absolutely...
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yesterday, figures showed this government reduced the deficit by a 1/3. does the prime minister agree to borrow and spend more as the shadow chancellor has confirmed will belabor's policy in 2015 would risk the progress? >> these are very tough times we're operating in, my friend is absolutely right. we've gotten the deficit down by a 1/3 and there are 1.25 million extra jobs and we've seen a record creation of new businesses in our country. the differences between the two parties is we believe in cutting our deficit. it is their official policy to put it up. if they did that, it would be higher interest rates, more businesses going bust, harder times for homeowners. that is what labor offers. >> angus robertson. >> thank you, mr. speaker. the government is absolutely right to prioritize the combating of sexual violence in conflict under its chairmanship of the g-8 but the prime minister would have more credibility on the subject if he didn't accept hundreds of thousands of pound and private dinners at downing street for mr. ian taylor. mr. taylor's compa
yesterday, figures showed this government reduced the deficit by a 1/3. does the prime minister agree to borrow and spend more as the shadow chancellor has confirmed will belabor's policy in 2015 would risk the progress? >> these are very tough times we're operating in, my friend is absolutely right. we've gotten the deficit down by a 1/3 and there are 1.25 million extra jobs and we've seen a record creation of new businesses in our country. the differences between the two parties is we...
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however you need to do it, get the deficit down, grow the economy. that's what people mean when they say austerity. this has gotten conflated with the republicans' position. you should reduce the deficit but not by cutting defense and absolutely not in any way by raising taxes. if it requires raising taxes even a dollar, then better not to reduce the deficit at all. better possibly even to default on the debt which brings all the terrible consequences of a debt crisis all at once artificially. something they don't typically believe that further government action to help out the economy probably isn't merited. if you think of these academics who have become associated with austerity, they've argued for principal write-downs where the government would make mortgages cheaper for people, for higher inflation. the republican party wants none of that. i think what the republican party is actually advocating is quite a bit less coherent even than austerity. >> what is it? if it's not austerity, then what do you think they want? even if you think it's corent
however you need to do it, get the deficit down, grow the economy. that's what people mean when they say austerity. this has gotten conflated with the republicans' position. you should reduce the deficit but not by cutting defense and absolutely not in any way by raising taxes. if it requires raising taxes even a dollar, then better not to reduce the deficit at all. better possibly even to default on the debt which brings all the terrible consequences of a debt crisis all at once artificially....
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yesterday biggest show this government has reduced the deficit by a third. does the prime minister agree -- [inaudible] would risk of squandering this program? >> my honorable friend is absent the right. these are very tough times that we are operating in but we have got the deficit down by a third. to our 1.25 million extra private sector jobs and we've seen a record creation of new businesses in our country. the differences between the two parties is we believe in cutting our deficit. it is their official policy to put it up. if they did that it would be higher interest rates, more businesses going bust, harder times for homeowners. that is what labour offers. >> the government is right to prritize the combating of sexual violence and conflicts under its chairmanship of the g8 but the prime minister would have more credibility onthe subject if he didn't accept hundreds of thousands of pounds and private dinners at downing street for mr. dean taylor. mr. taylor's company has admitted dealings with a notorious serb war criminal who is indicted for and i quot
yesterday biggest show this government has reduced the deficit by a third. does the prime minister agree -- [inaudible] would risk of squandering this program? >> my honorable friend is absent the right. these are very tough times that we are operating in but we have got the deficit down by a third. to our 1.25 million extra private sector jobs and we've seen a record creation of new businesses in our country. the differences between the two parties is we believe in cutting our deficit....
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did a trust deficit with russia cloud our intelligence committee? a response to warnings about one of the accused bombers. >> heather: we begin with a fox news alert and new arrest in the string of ricin laced letters. arresting 41-year-old everett dugs ky. he was taken into custody at his home overnight. his arrest comes days after criminal charges were dropped on tuesday. that was against another mississippi man. we will have the latest in a full report just minutes away. gregg? >> gregg: well let's get to the good news first. really, it's all you air travelers out there. faa has suspended all employee furloughs and system will be back at full strength by tomorrow night. even after congress voted to approve a bill that would ease flight delays caused by automatic spending cuts, the blame game between democrats and republicans is, of course, in full swing. following it all, molly henneberg live in washington. >> molly: president obama has not signed the legislation yet. there is technical glitch that the senate needs to fix next week. federal aviat
did a trust deficit with russia cloud our intelligence committee? a response to warnings about one of the accused bombers. >> heather: we begin with a fox news alert and new arrest in the string of ricin laced letters. arresting 41-year-old everett dugs ky. he was taken into custody at his home overnight. his arrest comes days after criminal charges were dropped on tuesday. that was against another mississippi man. we will have the latest in a full report just minutes away. gregg?...
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in other words, you've got to have a deficit reduction plan, but if necessary, you've got to calibrate that, so that it's not happening so sharply, that your growth levels or your deficit becomes worse and you get a downward spiral. so, look, i think it's possible for the government to adjust. i think in a way, it is adjusting. but i think it's important to balance the monetary effect that the bank of demand policies are taking with a fiscal, you know, a fiscal plan that allows our economy to carry on growing. >> we are, of course, in a global, connected economy. and the emerging markets, certainly throughout asia, seem to be showing real growth rates. can we see the interconnectedness on the positive side of things, rather than the interconnectedness on the negative side of things, which is what we saw in 2007 and 2008? do you think that is going to be helpful for the u.s. and the euro zone? >> yes, i think it could be. i mean, i'm optimistic about the new chinese leadership. i think they're really, smart, capable people who understand the next stages of reform in china are important,
in other words, you've got to have a deficit reduction plan, but if necessary, you've got to calibrate that, so that it's not happening so sharply, that your growth levels or your deficit becomes worse and you get a downward spiral. so, look, i think it's possible for the government to adjust. i think in a way, it is adjusting. but i think it's important to balance the monetary effect that the bank of demand policies are taking with a fiscal, you know, a fiscal plan that allows our economy to...
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. >> presenta un dÉficit millonario y dejarÍa un dÉficit de 15 millones de dÓlares, chicago es la Última ciudad que le daba agua gratis a las iglesias: # desde chicago, janet rodrÍguez, telemundo. >> en breve, el papa emÉrito benedicto xvi regresa al vaticano les cuento por quÉ. >> tambiÉn les cuento por que el cantante ricky martin desatÓ >> el regreso del papa benedicto xvi renunciÓ a su pontificado y entonces no solamente habÍa visto en pÚblico y ahora el papa emÉrito fue recibido por su sucesor, papa francisco en el vaticano, man mon nanasterio de sede tenemos los detalles. en su regreso al vaticano abriÓ un nuevo capÍtulo en la historia por primera vez en la historia reciente a partir de hoy dÍa benedicto xvi se dedicara a una vida de oraciÓn en el monasterio. >> le dio la bienvenida y poco despuÉs recio ron juntos en la capilla igual que lo hicieron en la primera reuniÓn que tuvieron en castell gano adol. ratzingeÁ con el mismo grupo que le ayudÓ en su pontificado. >> en el sentido protegido de curiosos de gente de querer ir a v verle. vivirÁ a una corta distancia
. >> presenta un dÉficit millonario y dejarÍa un dÉficit de 15 millones de dÓlares, chicago es la Última ciudad que le daba agua gratis a las iglesias: # desde chicago, janet rodrÍguez, telemundo. >> en breve, el papa emÉrito benedicto xvi regresa al vaticano les cuento por quÉ. >> tambiÉn les cuento por que el cantante ricky martin desatÓ >> el regreso del papa benedicto xvi renunciÓ a su pontificado y entonces no solamente habÍa visto en pÚblico y ahora el...
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it cut our deficit by $600 billion. folks, look, draconian cuts on the middle class and elderly, why do they do it? people say joe, it is hard to believe this is what they are proposing. in order to provide for the massive tax cuts to corp. prilt america and very wealthy that's the only way they can do it other than ballooning the deficit more than they already have. that's why they talk a it the way they do. that's why they call for these cuts in the middle class. they talk a lot about deficits. let me talk a what my president and the congress has done. we reduced the deficit over the next 10 years by $2.5 trillion. $2.5 trillion. the proposal is to gain another $1.5 trillion. [applause] the difference is we do it fair. congressman will tell you. that will get us to the magic number. every economists you talk to will tell you if you get debt to g.d.p. below 3% that's when things take off. that's exactly what the president's proposal will do, it will get it down to 2.1% of g.d.p. you don't have the break the back and sp
it cut our deficit by $600 billion. folks, look, draconian cuts on the middle class and elderly, why do they do it? people say joe, it is hard to believe this is what they are proposing. in order to provide for the massive tax cuts to corp. prilt america and very wealthy that's the only way they can do it other than ballooning the deficit more than they already have. that's why they talk a it the way they do. that's why they call for these cuts in the middle class. they talk a lot about...